Jing Yu's photograph of us

bitter sweet taste of selling a bike

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August 29th 2008
27August 08 Buying bus tickets for the first time. Although I’ve been learning Mandarin for some time now, I’m still painfully aware of my language inadequacies and my basic toneless Mandarin skills. Chris has always been good at languages and is way ahead of me with his Mandarin skills and this puts me in a position whereby I let him do all the talking because he’s better at it than ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more